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Scientific Name
Caladenia transitoria
Family Name
ORCHIDACEAE
Common Name
Green Calandenia (orchid)
Status
Height
0.08m - 0.16m (8-16cm)
Flowers
Flowers 1-3 short lived, sometimes not openingcreamish green to yellowish green internally, greenish brown externally, labellum pink with purple bars and blotches, the apex, calli dark purplish black, column greenish, spotted and blotched with red.
Fruit
Papery capsule
Form
Leaf narrowly linear, base slightly reddish, densley hairy. Scape very slender and wiry, sparsely hairy.
Municipalities
Burnie; Central Coast; Devonport; Flinders Island; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Southern Midlands; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar
Communities
Dry Eucalypt Forest and Woodland; Heath
Habitat Notes
Occurs in shrubby and heathy open eucalypt forest and tea tree shrubland. Soils covered with bracken and heavy leaf litter.
Site Tolerance
Dry; Exposed; Exposed
Frost Tolerance
Moderate
Soil Tolerance
Clay; Fertile; Loam; Sandy; Well-drained
General Notes
Plants often hidden under bracken. Fires are relatively infrequent in this habitat, and flowering plants have been found one or two years after fire. Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
Flowering Months
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Seed Collecting Months
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Sowing Months
Jan
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Cutting Months
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Dec
Seed Information
Seed Collection
Seed Treatment Method
Standard
Seed Storage Life
Viable Seeds Per Gram
Seed Treatment Notes
Orchid seeds are very minute yellow, brown or blackish dust-like particles. Orchid seeds are produced within a capsule that splits at maturity and releases tousands to millions of seeds. Dispersed by wind and water and only germinate following infection of the embryo by a suitable mycorrhizal fungus. Very few seeds become mature plants. For more information see Jones, Wapstra, Tonelli, Harris (1999): The Orchids of Tasmania.
Germination Time
Suitable for Direct Seeding
Cuttings
Expected Time to Take Root
Expected Time to Plant Out
Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
Cutting Notes
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